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<blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 2724049" data-attributes="member: 6777">Man, these threads are awful popular lately.D&amp;D, as a brand, is. D&amp;D has movies. D&amp;D has ads in maagzines other than Dragon. D&amp;D has TV commercials. D&amp;D has top-selling computer/console titles. D&amp;D has comic books. D&amp;D has multiple shelves of novels in every major bookstore. &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons&quot; has entered common parlance.It's not the boom of the early '80s... but that's never going to happen again. It doesn't change the fact that there are up to 4.6 million poeple who play D&amp;D in the US (according to Charles Ryan), and GenCon sees more and more attendees each year.As for the points you made, some I agree with, some I don't. Ultimately, they address more general issues with the industry and hobby rather than current problems. And until an acutal industry person contributes to this thread, all people can do is speculate and provide anecdotal evidence.And even if they do, there's so little data made public by the industry, that we still end up speculating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="buzz, post: 2724049, member: 6777"] Man, these threads are awful popular lately. D&D, as a brand, is. D&D has movies. D&D has ads in maagzines other than [i]Dragon[/i]. D&D has TV commercials. D&D has top-selling computer/console titles. D&D has comic books. D&D has multiple shelves of novels in every major bookstore. "Dungeons & Dragons" has entered common parlance. It's not the boom of the early '80s... but that's never going to happen again. It doesn't change the fact that there are up to 4.6 million poeple who play D&D in the US (according to Charles Ryan), and GenCon sees more and more attendees each year. As for the points you made, some I agree with, some I don't. Ultimately, they address more general issues with the industry and hobby rather than current problems. And until an acutal industry person contributes to this thread, all people can do is speculate and provide anecdotal evidence. And even if they do, there's so little data made public by the industry, that we still end up speculating. [/QUOTE]

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